03/03/2022
The psyche is real.
Kids in their 20’s and 30’s are claiming to be experts in assisting troubled individuals to find emotional/psychological relief and spiritual enlightenment. This culture of drug use in “ceremonies” and “processes” is becoming ever more popular. Phrases such as “you really see yourself”/ “you have to own your sh*t”/ “wow the insights I gained” and “I never realized life could be so beautiful” are commonly heard by participants. These experiences are fantastic in and of themselves.
My question is - how much can a person benefit from a chemically/plant induced “religious or spiritual” experience that was instantly received as opposed to the long, slow path less travelled, that will leave permanent unshakeable wisdom in its wake?
I am profoundly mistrustful of the so-called “pure gifts of the Gods”. I believe that you pay dearly for them. If this experience was a God-given gift without a hidden counter poison, then it would mean a tremendous enrichment, an expansion of consciousness by which we are naturally fascinated. However I do not believe that integration and moral processing of what we see and hear in the chemically induced state is truly enriching or amplifying the consciousness.
Jung says: “If you are too unconscious it is a great relief to know a bit of the collective unconscious, but it soon becomes dangerous to know more, because one does not learn how to balance it through a conscious equivalent.”
To put it simply, my experience has taught me to beware of unearned wisdom. Unless the ground has been prepared for the temple of our divine self to be built on, when floods or storms (life’s challenges) come, all will be washed away or destroyed. The expansion of consciousness is a painstaking, arduous journey that spans an entire lifetime.
“The more you know of it, the greater and heavier becomes your moral burden, because unconscious contents are transformed into your individual tasks as soon as they begin to become conscious. Humans often proceeded to new realizations by passing through errors. It seems to me very understandable, and more than pardonable, if many people in the younger generation are unable to bear the intellectual vacuity and soullessness of the technical nonculture and therefore have recourse to drugs. However for every individual the hour of destiny strikes in which they must decide whether they want to sink forever into this meaninglessness, or pass through it as through a gate and go on to the great work of objective self-knowledge.” Marie Louise von Franz, Psychotherapy.
Nothing can outclass the psyche (soul) or divine nature of everything in existence. The means by which I personally access these dimensions is through practices which include - prayer, breath-work, yoga, fasting, journaling, eating well and exercise. I abstain from all and every form of drugs including alcohol. There are many natural ways to activate and cultivate DMT in the body including darkness therapy or spending extended periods of up to a week in total darkness, facilitated and assisted as well as the above mentioned practices.
Jung has said “The spirit of the time has condemned us to haste, and all haste is of the devil”.
I believe in slowing everything down and that fast food, instant gratification, chemically induced spirituality and easy enlightenment is the fastest way to hell.
Rob Harrewyn @ Sober Cobra.
